Editing Verbal Behavior (section)

{{short description|Psychology book}}
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|name = Verbal Behavior
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|image = VerbalBehavior.jpg
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|author = B. F. Skinner
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|country = United States
|language = English
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|subject = Human Language, Communication, Speech, [[Linguistics]]
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|publisher = Copley Publishing Group
|pub_date = 1957, 1992
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|pages = 478
| isbn =  1-58390-021-7 |isbn_note= (case), {{ISBN|0-87411-591-4}} (pbk.)
|oclc = 251221179
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'''''Verbal Behavior''''' is a 1957 book by [[psychologist]] [[B. F. Skinner]], in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called [[linguistics]].<ref name="Chiesa 2004">{{Cite book |first=Mecca |last=Chiesa |title=Radical Behaviorism: The philosophy and the science |place=Sarasota, Florida |publisher=Authors Cooperative |year=2004 |isbn= 978-0-9623311-4-5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Burrhus Frederick |last=Skinner |title=Verbal Behavior |author-link=B. F. Skinner |place=Acton, MA |publisher=Copley Publishing Group |year=1957 |isbn=978-1-58390-021-5 |chapter=Chapter 1: A Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior}}</ref> Skinner's work describes the controlling elements of verbal behavior with terminology invented for the analysis - ''echoics, mands, tacts, autoclitics'' and others - as well as carefully defined uses of ordinary terms such as ''audience''.